Query about gifts and collapsing economies

[Alneyan]

Well, I have given up on using the warships as actual threats to enemy warships. They are rammers now, and if they can actually soften up the enemy shielding before ramming, all the better. They also serve as kamikaze minesweepers, and can still glass the odd planet.

However, this is definitively not a kamikaze time; I am merely *attempting* to make a suicide run. But when ten planets of mine are captured every turn, hurting his happiness is almost impossible, and the best I can do is hope to get a lucky shot. There is no core system belonging to me, and no way of defending them, so the matter of defence has been solved; there will be no defence. Just don't tell that to my civilians; somehow, that might hurt their morale.

At least, I can put the full blame on the previous players and the AI, as I took over ten turns ago or so. Still, the wise decision of attempting to play the kingmaker was mine, and so I actually brought that slaughter upon myself. Still, allies were supposed to jump in, but it didn't exactly happen (I think there were three or four of us in that attacking wave).